Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-01-27

sympathy.
Besides" he said, 'men must at |
asst learn that enasui, if not something
worse, lies inevitably at the end of
luxury. That fair taste of most
things in this world Is better than COM
plete qualification. Then again, while |
men are unriddling other problems of
existence, this one of mans
ineq uality of condition is thrust
ing itself into our very faces
and must and will be explored and
solved. 1t can never be reached
through anarchy and blood, but only
by the warm currents of educated love
melting human selfishness away and
the gentle fingers of pity at the worlds
purse-strings. As man advances he
must surely come to see that more than
he wholesomely needs is only" care
and weight to him and that in COM
mon decency it should go to those who
need it. We are all unclothed and
equal at birth, all members of one
family, why should we scheme and
cheat and basely befool each other out
of life's common heritage?"
They all got down in Eden Park 10
see the sun set. The two elder ladies
remained upon the hillside resting in
rustic seat, and still farther exploring
the question suggested. Mrs. Gleason
was in a ferment lest such a philosophy
might strain and perhaps break the
fine lines of aristocracy, and was rath-
er more ruffled than soothed when
Mrs. Brayton thought that, while it
might be fatal to the aristocracy of
wealth, it would be the making of the
of ,-;r
Mrs. Gleason, was worried, too, that
such a scheme of equality would render
the carrying forward of great wealth
from generation to generation by one
family impossible, and was but little
Modified when Mrs. Brayton offered
the thought that perhaps that very
thing was the vel zebra of the Kingship
of Dollars. and should be broken; and
further, that the bequeathing of wealth
to ones offspring. in any case. was
usually curse to them, since if they
held to and augmented it they were
left no commonality of feeling with the
poor, and if they squandered it, as was
mostly the case, they generally went
down in the wreck, diseased, and every
way unfit for life.
Mrs. Gleason looked discouraged in
deed, as she tapped her shining boot
upon the ground and gazed away where
the canopy of smoke, here and there
shot through with slanting sunshine.
hung over the toiling city. Mrs. Bray
a smile on her pleasant face. Never
mind,'' she said, .'such goodness
among men will scarcely be popular in
our day, nor perhaps during the lives
of those soft-hearted children dream
ing up there, though hope it may, "
and she turned and waved her hand to
Celeste and John EARRING where they
sat upon the crown of the green ac-
clivity.
Ali it is deep world. as Celeste
had said, and that which broods above
and moves it is Love itself; though not
always can its clear beams, turned
aside by lowering shapes of greed and
lust. come through the vulture-wings
and touch US or shine through oul
deadened, glutted spirits into lovely
action.
To John Earring the touch of hel
dress was sweet, and the light laying
of her hand upon his. as she pointed tc
something in the landscape. filled hin
with pleasure as clean as the sunshine
Look she said, what burst o
sunshinen and indeed the world wa
flooded divinely, as the great orl
swung down out of the silver-rimmet
clouds and hung burning close abov'
the far off tree-tops. ''lt brings
sunset to me of long ago." she said
IS it seems so bright and definite in m.
memory, ! suppose, because was
child 1t was when l was little girl
remember, and mamma and l wen
from our home in Washington t.
Grandpa Snaer's in New York State
He lived on the upper Hudson, ant
upon that evening l am speaking Of,
remember he took my hand and w
walked across a pasture west OF tn
house, and from a high swell of groun'
we watched the sun 60 down. He wa
gray and bent, l remember, and no
very strong; and when we had looke
long time at the light slanting alon;
the hills, much as it does here, tear
came into his eyes, and l asked hin
why he cried. He will never come
shall never see him, he said. wv
parted in wrath, and he will neve
come backr Then 1 asked him VIII
he was speaking of and he said, re
member how mournfully: Ivyl, m
only son and your mothers onl
brother, my child He went away
the West when he was boy, Their
where the sun is going, and hav
never seen him since. Your mothe
was only baby when he left; oh!
wish he had only been like her! ha
only been like herr Then remembe
cried.sI hardly knew why, and tn
next morning when they went
waken my grandfather he was dead
shall never forget it, and often when
look at the sun set, wonder If the su
somewhere doesn't still go over tn;
wanderer ere it reaches the wester
SEAT
In her absorption she did not motto
how John Earring started in the mid
of what she was saying, and now whe
she glanced up she only half col
sciously saw that his face was white
as if a great fear had crossed him, an
that he was staring at her in a daze
way.
why" she began, with enquirin
wonder IF living, he is my only ne:
relative, save Mrs. Bower, of Opel
stone, you knowr'
..Yes. ves." he stammered, the COLI
rushing back into his face. Il do n
wonder that you would like to know
he still lives. I-I-should like
know that, too then more calml
Ibid not your mother rememo
himP'
..Only little, I believe. If alive
must be an old man now?
Eyes"
Then they fell into silence; the q
holding her beautiful face to the su
set with a musing look, and the your